It actually mattes what shitty “analogy” he uses, because he’s implicitly endorsing prohibition and related violence that’s ongoing and extreme. It’s a typical lib tactic of normalizing state violence.
Comment on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 month agoIt’s an analogy, the article is about digital privacy not drugs.
It doesn’t matter what substance he uses as an analogy because he’s talking about the dangers of pushing a dangerous product at industrial scale.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Suoko@feddit.it 1 month ago
Well, didn’t I say it was just the wrong analogy?
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
It's not just about digital privacy. It never talks about data privacy. It's about consumer protection and social media's nature being harmful. The only European law violations mentioned are anti-scamming + "𝕏 refuses to make its public data available to researchers". It's also explicitly in favor of KOSA, which lets the FTC ban anything it wants from children's eyes online. It's quite implied that the article supports banning social media for youth.